FIX: Debugger Hangs with Huge Executable with Embedded Symbols

• The Integrated Debugger, included with:
  • Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When debugging a large executable with embedded symbolic information (linked with /PDB:NONE), the debugger may hang (stop responding) before loading symbols.

RESOLUTION

Make the executable smaller by doing one of the following:

• Reduce the amount of embedded symbolic information. You can do this by:
  
  
  1. In Build Settings, select the files for which you do not need debug information, and set Debug info to None in the C/C++ tab, General category. For a command-line equivalent, compile these files without the /Zi or /Zd options.
  
  
  
  2. In Build Settings, select the files for which you only need line number information, and set Debug info to Line Numbers Only in the C/C++ tab, General category. For a command-line equivalent, compile these files with the /Zd instead of /Zi option.
  
  
  


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• Use a program database (.pdb) file instead of embedding the debugging information in the executable. On the Build Settings menu, click the Link tab, Click Customize category, and click Use program database. For a command-line equivalent, link the application with the /DEBUG and /PDB options. Only use the /PDB option if you want to specify the .pdb file name that will be created. Do not use /PDB:NONE.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Visual C++, 32-bit Edition, version 4.1.

Additional query words: kbVC400bug 4.00 vcfixlist410

Keywords : kbDebug kbide
Version : 4.00
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type :